'error: cannot run ssh: No such file or directory when trying to clone on windows

I am trying to clone a remote repository on Windows, but when I did this:

git clone [email protected]:organization/xxx.git

I got this error:

error: cannot run ssh: No such file or directory
fatal: unable to fork

Am I missing something?

Solution 1:^[1]

You don't have ssh installed (or don't have it within your search path).

You can clone from github via http, too:

git clone http://github.com/organization/xxx

Solution 2:^[2]

Check if you have installed ssh-client. This solves the problem on docker machines, even when ssh keys are present:

apt-get install openssh-client

Solution 3:^[3]

Most likely your GIT_SSH_COMMAND is referencing the incorrect public key.

Try:

export GIT_SSH_COMMAND="ssh -i /home/murphyslaw/.ssh/your-key.id_rsa

then

git clone [email protected]:organization/xxx.git

Solution 4:^[4]

I am aware that it is an old topic, but having this problem recently, I want to bring here what I resolve my issue.

You might have this error on these conditions :

You use a URL like this : [email protected]:organization/repo.git
And you run a kind of command like this directly : git clone [email protected]/xxxxx.git whereas you don't have ssh client (or it is not present on path)
Or you have an ssh client installed (and git clone xxx.git work fine on direct command line) but when you run the same kind of command through a shell script file

Here, I assume that you don't want to change protocol ssh git@ to http:// ([email protected]:organization/repo.git -> http://github.com/organization/repo.git), like my case, cause I needed the ssh format.

So,

If you do not have ssh client, first of all, you need to install it
If you have this error only when you execute it through a script, then you need to set GIT_SSH_COMMAND variable with your public ssh key, in front of your git command, like this :

GIT_SSH_COMMAND="/usr/bin/ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa" git pull

(Feel free to change it depending on your context)

Solution 5:^[5]

I had this issue right after my antivirus moved the cygwin ssh binary to virus vault, and restored it after.

Symptoms:

SSH seems properly installed
SSH can be run from command line without problem

Another option before reinstalling ssh in this particular case: check the ssh command permissions

$ ls -al /usr/bin/ssh.exe
----rwxrwx+
$ chmod 770 /usr/bin/ssh.exe

Solution 6:^[6]

You can try these as well

ssh-add ~/.ssh/identity_file
chmod 400 ~/.ssh/identity_file

Solution 7:^[7]

It so happened in my case that the new pair of ssh keys linked with my git account were not accessible.

I had to sudo chmod 777 ~/.ssh/id_rsa.* to resolve the issue.

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Solution 2	ssi-anik
Solution 3	Rob
Solution 4
Solution 5	user1556814
Solution 6	Abdul Muiz Khan
Solution 7	Dota2

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